Source: https://www.scribd.com/doc/235024900/Unit-6-Analysis-1-Memory-Cost
Now think about the amount of storage we will have 45 years from now.
don't worry, at this rate we'll be back to that pricing in no time...
this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2026
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Local storage will be illegal in 45 years.
I didn't think about that, "you'll own nothing and be happy" plan...
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My second computer had a 20 MB HDD and it was wonderful to have soooo much space compared to the previous computer which had no HDD and 3 floppy drives.
Then a year later I added a second 20 MB HDD and was absolutely swimming in space.
Back then a 'large' app was 100 KB. You'd spend all day writing code and produce a 13 KB file.
I can spend all day writing code and end up a couple kB lighter.
It really is insane that 1TB micro SD cards exist now
Yes, it is:
Yeah but your crypto was safe, brah.
I remember my parents taking us to the Gateway store, and the guy who helped us said something along the lines of “This PC has 12 gigs; you’ll never run out of space!”
Napster hit the scene within a few months. Started getting “low disk space!” warnings real quick.
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All the oldies flocking here to tell everyone about how cool their tiny hard drives were.
Hi, I had a 25mb hard drive and it was awesome. Technology!
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I remember getting my first 10MB hard drive, c. the 80s. I remember holding it in my hands and marveling at how I could put ten million bytes in this little enclosure and just... carry it around, if I so chose. Not that I was inclined to; that thing was heavy.
Eventually, after the drive failed, I took it apart and pinched the absolute fuck out of my finger between the two neodymium magnets. Blood was spilled.
Computers used to be fun. They still are, but they used to be too.
It's funny to see cost per GB on the right. Back in 1980, most people didn't even know what a Gigabyte might be.
I always chuckle thinking about taking a 1TB Micro SD back in time and watching people’s heads explode.
I remember being in college in the very early 90s and a friend got a machine with 2 2gb hard drives and wondering what he was going to do with all that space. Now I have a NAS at home with something like 100TB and it’s almost 75% full.
Ahoy, matey! 🤣
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Nice try, AI companies!
26 megabytes...who will ever need that much.
I know, right? I had a 20 MB drive on my Amiga. Plenty.
I had a 186 (or possibly an 8088?) in the mid 80s as my first PC. It ran on two low density 5.25" floppy drives, with no internal HD. My uncle bought himself a new HDD and gave me his old 20MB drive. When I was next at the local computer store, I asked how much a 20MB drive costs, and my jaw hit the floor!
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And every step of the way, some assholes idiots inspired society to think "we will never need more than this"
It’s not clear if the original adjusted for inflation. $5000 in todays money is $21,500
Probably going to cost that again soon if AI keeps eating the world.
Apple coming in at the highest cost per GB sounds about right, but holy shit their price was absurd.
Tbf, very few people had a hard disk at home in 1980. And if they did, it was a smaller capacity. The IBM PC XT shipped with a 10 MB drive in 1983.
I once bought a 20MB HDD for about 1000.
Who would ever need 20Mb?? You're just wasting money at this point.
20Mb != 20MB
20Mb == 20MB / 8
I know. But my autocorrect did not. And I didn't care enough to fix, since it didn't make a difference for the joke lol
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Mine only cost $300 sometime in the late 80s. Computer prices kept on declining all the way from 1950 to 2016.
(edit to make a better guess at start and end years — 2016 because it was the year of the 1080ti)
Long live the 1080ti
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Seagate 2TB bare drive: $70. When it's not on sale. Which it is right now.
Price per GB: 3.5 cents
over $100 now. was about $55-60 a year ago. a 2tb today costs more than the 'cheap' smr 8tb drives i got ~ 18 months ago.
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I remember getting my first Seagate ST-225 21 MB (no not a typo) drive for $800.
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